This study examined the influence of attitudes and self-monitoring on leniency (elevation accuracy) of performance ratings and personnel decisions. In addition, moderating effects of self-monitoring on the relationship between attitudes and accuracy of ratings and decisions were investigated. Attitudes and self-monitoring tendency of 210 managers-professionals were measured, and ratings provide...

Information about quality related characteristics such as reliability, performance, us-ability, maintainability and robustness are generally collected in an ad hoc manner in the development and maintenance of large software systems. This paper details the construction of a framework for continuously monitoring these characteristics while a system is operating. The framework is based around an i...

Ground-support based satellite health monitoring and fault diagnosis practices involve around-theclock limit-checking and trend analysis on large amount of telemetry data. They do not scale well for future multi-platform space missions due to the size of the telemetry data and an increasing need to make the long-duration missions costeffective by limiting the operations team personnel. To utili...

Department of Management & Marketing King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia Abstract. Existing streams of literature are integrated to propose a conceptual framework that highlights the antecedents of relationship marketing on customer loyalty and its outcomes. The framework aims to provide insights into the underpinnings of relationship marketing. The proposed...

BACKGROUND Radiation, which is used extensively to diagnose and treat human diseases, poses an occupational health risk for the concerned health workers. Personal dosimetry is an important tool to monitor occupational radiation exposures. OBJECTIVE This study was conducted to reveal and to describe the situation of occupational radiation exposure monitoring among staffs in different health ca...

We present an evidence-based clinical practice guideline for the administration of the dissociative agent ketamine for emergency department pediatric procedural sedation and analgesia. Substantial research in recent years has necessitated updates and revisions to the widely disseminated 1990 recommendations. We critically discuss indications, contraindications, personnel requirements, monitorin...

Given increasingly tight rules of engagement for military operations, the demand for advanced surveillance systems rises accordingly. Moreover, there is a tendency to reduce the number of personnel for maintenance and operation of support systems. Typical surveillance tasks include support for securing compounds in hostile environments, protection of provision routes, protection of forces in ha...